Because when people are in the search for new answers, they'll often turn to a religion that has no bad history behind it. Since Scientology is still incredibly new with no mass suicides or anything like that yet, they can get the answers they want while having the opportunity to say "Oh yeah? At least MY god doesn't cause any wars! Beat that!"
Because a few famous people like Tom Cruise are involved in it. And because it's not Christianity, which means that it's automatically trendy and hip in the eyes of many.
I suppose they think they know something about it that others don't? Maybe they just like the philosophy but don't buy the fundamental beliefs. Maybe they just like Tom Cruise
I kinda got a bad taste for it after doing some research spawned by the Scientology episode of South Park where Stan is seen as the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. Funny it was, no doubt.
If they feel it works for them to improve their quality of life, so be it!
The same reason why they take Christianity seriously (baby born to a virgin, duh?), take Islam seriously or Buddism, or whatever religion there is. People want to feel special and loved, want to feel protected, want to think that if they believe in something they will be rewarded with life in paradise, or psychic powers, or they'll live forever...
People are just lonely without religions and gods and aliens. Or at least a Santa :P
Merry Xmas!
because it works for them!
I dint know about L.Ron Howard, but in the 70's his book diabetics was very popular.
I might make Friends and lead them to a better society, but I dint know whats the best society.!
Everything is corrupted no matter what religion you join.
what it depends on each of us to do is to study and work out our salvation by NOT rejecting truth no matter what its sources!
To the people of the carnal and the world, the people of the spirit are fools and God to them is foolish also.
People take Scientology seriously because there is this prevalent belief in America that religion, faith, and "belief in believing" is a good thing. Even people who do not believe in any particular brand of religious idiocy think that while religious people are misguided, the religions they prescribe to are somehow beneficial to society at large. This idea that religion is inherently good is common among agnostics, atheists, and (obviously) theists, and it is the main reason why Christians don't speak out against the horrible things the cytologistsST'svENE, and why precious few atheists do.
It's called the star factor. Weak
minded people want to be like
the next person. Stars want to
be like other stars. Others want
to be like stars.
All I'm seeing is spinning stars
from a bunch of idiots.
For those who don't know it.
The creator of Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard started as
a failed science fiction writer.
As far as I know Scientology is more like a secret society of rich/famous people who pool their money and resources together to influence people and further their own goals - whatever they may be...
I live an eastern euopeen country
yesterday a had a car accident
immediatly a team from the church came and talk to me to help me recover myself
i ma interdsted to find more about them
1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true.
2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.
3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please, do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowledge and experience. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situations. This is what we call on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram (a pain memory that affects your judgment and free will).
4. You can discharge the energy in these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques used to improve the individual.
5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.
6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j
7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.
8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is a pseudo science because it is based in principles that are false. Psychiatry have never pr oven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+i s+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology& hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vd one=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo% 3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of irresponsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary false release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.
9. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatric abuses, http://www.cchr.org/ dangerous and harmful drugs, criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" http://www.youthforhumanrights.org and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life". http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org
Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.
10. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free (marriages, naming ceremonies, ect). Scientology earns it's money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do). But if you want auditing there are many alternative and economical ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and perform all your auditing with a fellow student. This way you can also provide free services to your friends and family. This is actually the preferred way to become clear because you learn how to help others. Scientology isn't about you going clear but taking responsibility across all your dynamics (self, family, group, humanity, life, ect).
11. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.
12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. If you wanna know about this propaganda machine see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315
It brainwashes them. A lot of people really are quite desperate to be guaranteed peace of mind, and Scientology will unequivocally promise just that. Of course, you have to pay massive amounts of money in order to officially move through the levels in the "religion". You also have to pay for official "auditing" (psychotherapy while holding 2 tin cans hooked up to a machine which reads your electrical output).
People take it seriously because despite the enormous quantities of money they have to allow them to suck away from they, it makes them feel better. People feel they purge themselves and that they can walk away clean. They probably don't realize that the organization with which they've become involved has a well documented track record of lying, cheating and violence.
Consider the following:
? Operation Snow White ? Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices. This program constituted the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Among the 11 prominent Scientologists convicted of this conspiracy was Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of Scientology?s ?prophet?.
http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/snow-white/index.html
? Operation Freakout - Their campaign of sabotage and violence against Paulette Cooper, the writer who published her research and findings on several cults, including Scientology. Scientology?s official plan: to frame Paulette for making bomb threats.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Krasel/cooper/frk1.html
? Fair Game - the Scientology policy detailing how the organization may confront and handle critics and perceived enemies. Here is a direct quote: "Enemies may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/fairgame.htm
? Violent Kidnapping - Lisa McPherson was a Scientologist, was involved in a car accident and resultantLyecame mentally unstable, was kidnapped by agents of Scientology, held against her will, refused proper psychiatric treatment and was allowed to STARVE TO DEATH.
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
? Jeremy Perkins - A CBS ?48 Hours? special on the mentally disturbed son of Scientologist parents who refused to put him on the anti-psychotic drugs that would have stabilized him & prevented him from killing his own mother.
http://www.scientomogy.com/jeremy_perkins.php
why do people take scientology serious?
